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Making sense of time

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2001

JOHN A. MICHON
JOHN A. MICHON
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Brigantynwal 7, 2317 GL Leiden, The Netherlands. Fax: +31 71 522 1927; E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

From the psychonomic point of view time is the conscious experiential product of the processes that enable the (human) organism to organize itself adaptively so that its behaviour stays tuned to the sequential contingencies afforded by its environment. This paper reviews some recent insights into the functioning of the timekeepers – clocks and regulators, organic and virtual – that make up the human ‘sense of time’.

Type
Original Article
Information
European Review , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , February 2001 , pp. 43 - 58
Copyright
© Academia Europaea 2001

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